"Grinling Gibbons Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was a Dutch-English sculptor and wood carver known for his work in England, including Windsor Castle and Hampton Court Palace, St. Paul's Cathedral and other London churches, Petworth House and other country houses, Trinity College Oxford and Trinity College Cambridge. Gibbons was born and educated in Holland of English parents, his father being a merchant. He was a member of the Drapers' Company of London. He is widely regarded as the finest wood carver working in England, and the only one whose name is widely known among the general"
"Carroll Gibbons Carroll Richard Gibbons (January 4, 1903 – May 10, 1954) was an American-born pianist, bandleader and popular composer who made his career primarily in England during the British dance band era. He was born and raised in Clinton, Massachusetts, one of three children of Peter and Mary Gibbons. In his late teens he travelled to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1924 he returned to London with the brassless Boston Orchestra for an engagement at the Savoy Hotel in the Strand. He liked Britain so much that he settled there and later became the"
"""Sweet & Swing"", presented by Jim and Howard Caine. The UK 1940s Radio Station, a dedicated Internet radio station, also regularly plays Gibbons's records. Carroll Gibbons Carroll Richard Gibbons (January 4, 1903 – May 10, 1954) was an American-born pianist, bandleader and popular composer who made his career primarily in England during the British dance band era. He was born and raised in Clinton, Massachusetts, one of three children of Peter and Mary Gibbons. In his late teens he travelled to London to study at the Royal Academy of Music. In 1924 he returned to London with the brassless Boston"
"born and raised on a small farm in southern Arkansas, the youngest of six children. When Gibbons was 4, his father, an alcoholic, abandoned him and his family leaving it impoverished. As a result, he grew up without a telephone or TV despite them being common American household conveniences during his childhood in the 1950s and 1960s. Also, his mother had to sell their chairs, tables, silverware, dishes, and other staple household necessities to pay for food and electricity. Eventually, his mother lost the small farm to foreclosure. As a child, Gibbons was a habitual truant that skipped school; but"
"Gibbons never returned to Cape Breton following his restoration, as he and his family were captured and put in a French prison during their return. Gibbons died in the French prison, while his family survived and returned to Cape Breton after their release. Gibbons was born around 1734 in London, England, as the son of Richard and Susannah Gibbons. The family first moved to Virginia, later moving to Halifax with his father in May 1750. He was admitted to the Nova Scotia bar in 1765. Richard Gibbons occupied positions in the colonial legislature, and as an appointed member of the"
"is married and lives in upstate New York. David Esterly David Esterly (born 10 May 1944) is an American limewood carver and writer known as an exponent of the high relief naturalistic style of the British carver Grinling Gibbons (1648 -1721). Esterly was born in Akron, Ohio but raised in Orange County, California. He received a BA from Harvard and a BA and Ph.D. from Cambridge, where he read English and was a Fulbright Scholar. His doctoral dissertation was on Yeats and Plotinus. He had rejected the idea of an academic career even before a conversion experience in 1974, when"
"better address such issues and better anticipate future problems. It was Jack's optimism and imagination that did so much to help the United States face the difficult issues of our time, including the climate crisis. He was utterly unique and irreplaceable."" Gibbons was born in Harrisonburg, Virginia, in 1929. As a teenager he became an Eagle Scout and earned the Order of the Arrow. Gibbons married Mary Ann Hobart in 1955; together they had three children: Virginia Neil, Diana Conrad, and Mary Marshall. For many years until shortly before his death, he and his wife resided in The Plains, Virginia."
"control. He has also been quoted as saying the Second Vatican Council was ""a Masonic plot backed by the Jews"". Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the son of businessman John Hutton Gibson (1884–1933) and Australian opera singer Eva Mylott (1875–1920). His maternal grandparents were Irish immigrants to Australia, while his father, from a wealthy tobacco-producing family from the American South, had Irish, English, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. He was raised in Chicago. His mother died when he was two years old and his father died when he was fifteen. Gibson supported his younger brother, Alexis, who died in"
"David Esterly David Esterly (born 10 May 1944) is an American limewood carver and writer known as an exponent of the high relief naturalistic style of the British carver Grinling Gibbons (1648 -1721). Esterly was born in Akron, Ohio but raised in Orange County, California. He received a BA from Harvard and a BA and Ph.D. from Cambridge, where he read English and was a Fulbright Scholar. His doctoral dissertation was on Yeats and Plotinus. He had rejected the idea of an academic career even before a conversion experience in 1974, when the sight of a Grinling Gibbons carving in"
"George Gibbons George Albert Reginald Gibbons (1887 – 11 August 1954) was an Australian politician. Born in Tichborne, just south of Parkes, New South Wales. He received a primary education before becoming a farm labourer and then a farmer. He was secretary of the Rural Workers Union, and later an organiser of the Australian Workers' Union. In 1929, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Calare, defeating Nationalist minister Sir Neville Howse. He held the seat until Labor's landslide defeat in 1931, when he was defeated by Harold Thorby of the Country Party."
"Baron Silas Greenback. Ian Fleming includes information about Blofeld's background in his novel ""Thunderball"". According to the novel, Blofeld was born on 28 May 1908 (which is also Fleming's birthday) in Gdingen, Imperial Germany (now Gdynia, Poland); his father Ernst George Blofeld was Polish, and his mother Maria Stavro Michelopoulos was Greek, hence the well-known Greek name Stavro. After World War I, Blofeld became a Polish national. As a young man, he was well-versed in the social science disciplines, but also in the natural science and technology disciplines. He first graduated from the University of Warsaw with a degree in"
"a result of third degree burns he received from a fire at the home he was renting. He was forty-one years old at the time of his death. Gibbins was born in Jersey, on 13 October 1952. After attending The Arthur Terry School, where he captained the school soccer team, in Four Oaks, Sutton Coldfield, he started his career out as an actor on radio and in television, as a reporter for BBC Midlands Today. At one point, Gibbins decided that he wanted to try out journalism but found that he did not much care for it. Before coming to"
"States, after Archbishop John McCloskey of New York. The fourth of six children, James Gibbons was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Thomas and Bridget (née Walsh) Gibbons. His parents were from Tourmackeady, County Mayo, Ireland, and settled in the United States after moving to Canada. After falling ill with tuberculosis in 1839, his father moved the family to his native Ireland, where he believed the air would benefit him. There, Thomas operated a grocery store in Ballinrobe and young James received his early education. His father died in 1847, and his mother returned the family to the United States in"
"Richard Gibbons Richard Gibbons (born at Winchester, 1550 or 1549; died at Douai, 23 June 1632) was an English Jesuit scholar. After making his early studies in England, and completing a two years' course in philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven and in the German College at Rome, he entered the Society of Jesus, on 1 September 1572, and continued his studies for three years. After his ordination he taught mathematics for thirteen years, philosophy for ten, scholastic philosophy for three and for some time also Hebrew and Scripture, dividing his time between Italy, France, Portugal, Spain, and Belgium."
"1990. During the last three years he served as chief judge and during his tenure wrote more than 800 legal opinions. After retirement Gibbons returned to his original firm and worked on human rights cases, in commercial arbitration and intellectual property disputes. He received a lifetime achievement award from ""The American Lawyer"" in 2005 and in 2006 was named as one of the ""National Law Journal""s ""100 most influential lawyers"". Born in Newark, New Jersey, Gibbons was raised in Belleville, New Jersey. He graduated from Saint Benedict's Preparatory School in 1942. He served in the United States Navy from 1943"
"John Gibbons (rower) John Greville Gibbons (born 19 June 1943) is a New Zealand rower. Gibbons was born in 1943 in Wellington, New Zealand. His father was Gerald Gibbons. In April 1968, he was on one of the boats that rescued survivors of the sinking of . A few months later, Gibbons represented New Zealand at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 174 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. In 1968, he was a student at the Victoria University of Wellington and while in Mexico at the Summer Olympics, he was awarded VUW"
"Guitarists of All Time. Gibbons was born to Frederick Royal (""Freddie"") and Lorraine (née Duffy) Gibbons in the Tanglewood neighborhood of Houston, Texas. His father was an entertainer, orchestra conductor, and concert pianist who worked alongside his second cousin, art director Cedric Gibbons, for Samuel Goldwyn at MGM Studios. A percussionist as a youth, Gibbons was sent by his father to New York City to study with Tito Puente. In 1963, Gibbons received his first electric guitar following his 13th birthday, a sunburst Gibson Melody Maker, accompanied by a Fender Champ amplifier, and was influenced by guitarists such as Jimmy"
"work very often includes carvings of peapods. A myth states that he would include a closed pod in his work, only carving it open once he had been paid. If the pea pod was left shut it supposedly showed that he had not been paid for the work. In Popular Culture In the first episode of the British television comedy ""Doctor in the House"", it is mentioned by one of the professors to the students that the interior decorations for St. Swithins were done by Grinling Gibbons. Grinling Gibbons Grinling Gibbons (4 April 1648 – 3 August 1721) was a"
"Gary Gibbons Gary William Gibbons (born 1 July 1946) is a British theoretical physicist. Gibbons was born in Coulsdon, Surrey. He was educated at Purley County Grammar School and the University of Cambridge, where in 1969 he became a research student under the supervision of Dennis Sciama. When Sciama moved to the University of Oxford, he became a student of Stephen Hawking, obtaining his PhD from Cambridge in 1973. Apart from a stay at the Max Planck Institute in Munich in the 1970s he has remained in Cambridge throughout his career, becoming a full professor in 1997, a Fellow of"
"his wife Leonora (""Nora"") Mary Gibson. At the time of his birth, his father was an officer in the Imperial Indian Forestry Service, becoming the Chief Conservator of Forests for the Simla Hill States in 1922. In 1924, when he was six, his parents separated. His mother was granted custody of Gibson, his elder brother Alexander (""Alick"") and sister Joan, and decided to return to England. As her family came from Porthleven, Cornwall, she settled first in Penzance. Gibson started school in England at the same school as his sister, West Cornwall College. His mother then moved to London and"
"Alan Gibbons Alan Albert Gibbons (born 14 August 1953) is an English writer of children's books who has won a ""Blue Peter"" Book Award. He lives in Liverpool, England, where he used to teach in a primary school. His father was a farm labourer, but was hurt in an accident when Alan was eight years old. The family had to move to Crewe, Cheshire. He began to write for his pupils as a teacher, but never tried to get any of his work published. Gibbons trained to be a teacher in his mid-thirties and starting writing short stories for his"
"He returned to farming and died in 1956. George Gibbons George Albert Reginald Gibbons (1887 – 11 August 1954) was an Australian politician. Born in Tichborne, just south of Parkes, New South Wales. He received a primary education before becoming a farm labourer and then a farmer. He was secretary of the Rural Workers Union, and later an organiser of the Australian Workers' Union. In 1929, he was elected to the Australian House of Representatives as the Labor member for Calare, defeating Nationalist minister Sir Neville Howse. He held the seat until Labor's landslide defeat in 1931, when he was"
"on 24 November 1915, the son of Thomas Gibson and his wife, Mary Munn. He attended the parish school in Kilbarchan and then Paisley Grammar School. He then studied Medicine at Glasgow University graduating MB ChB in 1938. His career (as most) was interrupted by the Second World War during which he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps where he served in northern Europe. After the war he served as Commanding Officer of the Maxillofacial Unit in India until 1947, specialising in major facial reconstruction from wounds and burns. He took special interest in the ""shock phase"" following major"
"Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Baronet Sir John Gibbons, 2nd Baronet (c.1717 – 9 July 1776) was a British Member of Parliament. Gibbons was born in Barbados, the son of Sir William Gibbons, 1st Baronet, speaker of the assembly and lieutenant-general of Barbados. He represented Stockbridge (1754–1761) and Wallingford (1761–1768) in the House of Commons, whilst at the same time being a member of the Barbados assembly. On his father's death in May 1760, he succeeded to the title of 2nd Baronet Gibbons. He acquired and lived in Stanwell Place, Middlesex, which then passed down in the Gibbons family to 1933."
"Gibson Gowland Gibson Gowland (4 January 1877 – 9 September 1951) was an English film actor. Gowland was born in Spennymoor, County Durham. He started work as a sailor and later became the mate on a ship. For several years from the age of 25 he went to South Africa, where he hunted for big game, prospected for diamonds and also organised a theatrical company in Johannesburg, and acted in it. He prospected in Canada, where he made his debut on the legitimate stage. Gowland went to the United States from Britain, by way of Canada, in 1913 where he"
"nominated for another four, including Best Picture and Best Director for Gibson, his second nomination in the category. Gibson was born in Peekskill, New York, the sixth of eleven children, and the second son of Hutton Gibson, a writer, and Irish-born Anne Patricia (née Reilly, died 1990). Gibson's paternal grandmother was opera contralto Eva Mylott (1875–1920), who was born in Australia, to Irish parents, while his paternal grandfather, John Hutton Gibson, was a millionaire tobacco businessman from the American South. One of Gibson's younger brothers, Donal, is also an actor. Gibson's first name is derived from Saint Mel, fifth-century Irish"
"""Bubbling Over"" and ""Moonbeam Dance"" were also quite successful in the United Kingdom. Gibbons and his orchestra had a weekly show on Radio Luxembourg in the 1930s, sponsored by Hartley's Jam. Carroll married Joan Muriel (née Lidstone) in 1951. Gibbons died at the London Clinic in 1954 at the age of 51, of a coronary thrombosis (heart attack). He is one of several famous musicians buried in Brookwood Cemetery in Surrey, England. Specialist dance band radio stations, such as Swing Street Radio and Radio Dismuke, continue to play his records. Gibbons also features regularly on the weekly Manx Radio programme"
"workmanship. Some Spanish panels of typical Italian design are in the Victoria and Albert Museum as well as cabinets of the purest Renaissance order. There is a wonderful Portuguese coffer (17th century) in this section. The top is deeply carved in little compartments with scenes from the life of Our Lord. In England, the great school of Grinling Gibbons arose. Although he carved many beautiful mouldings of conventional form (Hampton Court Palace, Chatsworth, etc.), his name is usually associated with a very heavy form of decoration which was copied direct from nature. Great swags of drapery and foliage with fruit"
"he received a tutoring post with Henry Birkbeck’s family at Keswick Hall whilst awaiting a post as a minister. In July 1853 he was ordained and took up a post in the United Presbyterian Church in Melrose in the Scottish Borders. He held this role until his health broke down in 1859. He then took a long break in which he devoted himself to study and travelling, including a trip to Cairo and the Holy Land in 1865. In 1871 he accompanied Alexander J. Duffield on a tour of iron mines in Spain. During this period Gibson developed a strong"
"a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. David Gibbins David Gibbins, FRSA, FRGS (born 1962) is an underwater archaeologist and a bestselling novelist. Gibbins was born in 1962 in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, to British parents who were both academic scientists. He travelled around the world with them by sea as a boy, including four years living in New Zealand, before returning to England and Canada. He attended the University of Bristol, England, where he was awarded a First Class Honours Degree in ancient Mediterranean studies. He then went to Cambridge University"
"born at Warracknabeal, Victoria on 4 February 1893. He was a cousin of Lieutenant Walter Horace Carlyle ""Lyle"" Buntine (1895-1917), MC. His younger brother, John Harbinger Gibbs (1897-1917), also attended Caulfield Grammar School, and also served in the First AIF. First taken ill at Gallipoli, John eventually died of illness at his father's Colac home, aged 20, on 13 October 1917, having been repatriated to Australia from England (on 16 July 1917) seriously ill with advanced pulmonary tuberculosis and, initially, he had been admitted to the Caulfield Military Hospital. Greatly distressed by the loss of both sons, his father —"
"Sportsman of the Year, which was presented to his father. John Gibbons (rower) John Greville Gibbons (born 19 June 1943) is a New Zealand rower. Gibbons was born in 1943 in Wellington, New Zealand. His father was Gerald Gibbons. In April 1968, he was on one of the boats that rescued survivors of the sinking of . A few months later, Gibbons represented New Zealand at the 1968 Summer Olympics. He is listed as New Zealand Olympian athlete number 174 by the New Zealand Olympic Committee. In 1968, he was a student at the Victoria University of Wellington and while"
"Simon Gibbons (priest) Simon Gibbons (June 21, 1851 - December 14, 1896) was Canada's first Inuit priest. The Anglican missionary constructed a number of churches in Nova Scotia. Simon Gibbons is believed to have been born at Forteau, Newfoundland and Labrador, on June 21, 1851, to Thomas Gibbons, a fisherman, and an Inuit woman who died giving birth. Some stories, possibly legends later circulated by Gibbons, have him found as a child on an ice-floe off the coast of Labrador. The first document about Gibbons shows him as a six-year-old child admitted to the Church of England Widows and Orphans"